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Josh is 17 years old when he is enlisted to help an old man write his memoirs. Beautifully evoking ordinary life, A Parting Gift explores such fundamental puzzles as how to live one's life, the reason for existence and the nature of God.Author: Ben...

In Legacy of Silence, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain creates an unforgettable story of a remarkable family--and a deception that reaches across continents, oceans, and generations. Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with a shattered life and a devastating secret. Pregnant and unwed,...

"Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can't help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen."--The Hartford Courant "There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a...

Welcome back to Hideaway Lake, a heartfelt women's fiction novel series Wintertime in Hideaway Lake is changing. With the new mansion on the hill now a winter retreat and becoming known for a honeymoon getaway since Joe and Laura's wedding was splashed all over...

Alice is a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up. Life has never been easy, but she's managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable loss occurs,...

From the prolific author of Little Women, this crime fiction novella highlights the breadth of Louisa May Alcott's talent. First published in 1866, Behind a Mask takes place in Victorian England and follows a sly, master manipulator, Jean Muir. Working as the governess for...

For a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century morals and values, take a look at Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. A blockbuster of a bestseller in its day, Pamela recounts the tribulations of a poor housekeeper who is forced constantly to fend off the prurient...

An Indie Next list selection and a Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of Fall 2013 "Full of pathos and humor and sadness, you won't reach the end of this book without feeling fuller and wiser."--PETER GEYELeonard Self has spent a year unwinding his ranch,...

Bound together by blood ties, Martha, Jack, and Shanco live on a farm in Wales, where their lives unfold in the eerie half-presence of their dead parents.Author: Caryl LewisISBN-10: 1905762313ISBN-13: 9781905762316Publisher: ParthianLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2007Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.47h x 5.67w x 0.50d

When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As Matthew and Harry struggle with their memories of personal and social change, a beautiful and moving portrait of...

First time in Paperback The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a...

The University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, 1997In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated, Awad Shalali, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, dreams of Dongola--the capital of medieval Nubia, now lost to the flood waters of the Aswan High...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress comes a World War II novel that spans continents and crosses generations as an American soldier and an enterprising Vogue photographer brave war-torn France to help a lost little girl find the one thing...

An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships.Author: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1548917591ISBN-13: 9781548917593Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2017Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

In the 19th century, the world's best known writer was probably Sir Walter Scott, who was one of the first writers to have a following across the globe in his lifetime. The Scottish writer still pops up in literature classes across the world, with...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

A Woman's Temptation is a novel written by Bertha M. Clay in 1880. The story revolves around the life of a young woman named Edith, who is married to a wealthy man, but is unhappy in her marriage. She is tempted by a charming...

The Lady's Maid's Bell is a short story written by Edith Wharton, an American novelist and short story writer. The story was first published in 1902 and is set in the Victorian era.The story revolves around a young woman named Alice Hartley, who is...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong.Jill Parker is an American painter living in Japan. Far from the trendy gaijin neighborhoods of downtown Tokyo, she's settled...

The debut novel from the author of Summer at Gaglow, called "a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination" by the New York Times Book ReviewEscaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined mother takes her daughters, aged 5 and 7, to Morocco...

Here is "a rich and lyrical masterpiece"-notes Peter Constantine-the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler's emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after...

Scott Barron seems to have it all -- a beautiful girlfriend, a dazzling career as a published poet, and a great future. In contrast, his younger brother Jes is a married, overweight, unpublished writer with a fondness for penguins. Then why is it that,...

"Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true."--The New York Times "Prose that's brave and honest."--People "Terrific. . . and terrifically illuminating."--The Washington PostAn award-winning story collection from the author of The Confusion of Languages. Through...

The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics--evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, and Carson McCullers, firmly establishing Godwin as a Southern literary novelist...

The acclaimed author of Sweetness in the Belly journeys to Vietnam in this rich and tantalizing new novel.Raised in the United States but Vietnamese by birth, Maggie has come to Hanoi seeking clues to the fate of her father, a dissident artist who disappeared...

The New York Times-bestselling author's heart-wrenching chronicle of a woman and her niece, who attempt to build the relationship they longed for all their livesLuanne Rice knows women. The author of thirty-one novels, Rice is a master at creating vivid female characters and capturing...

Welcome to Valentine Valley, where tongues are wagging now that the town bad boy is back--and rumor has it the lean, mean ex-Marine is about to lose his heart But like it or not, in a town like Valentine, love happens . . .Adam...

Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Marguerite, who is quietly losing her mind. A meditation...

Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country...and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different....someone who requires...

"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee comes a propulsive new novel of a family that unravels when a stranger is found dead in their backyard, only to find he might hold the key to finding their...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling roller-coaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers' hearts. What if you had the winning ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn't cash...

Farmer Bill Fogel isn't ready to retire. But his children have grown, his wife has passed, and his body is protesting. When a warehouse developer approaches him about buying the farm that has been in his family for generations, the offer seems too good...

A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in a timeless story of family in this "lovely and memorable" (Luis Carlos Montalv疣, New York Times bestselling author) novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe. As far...

Rosie Benson does not have it all together. Like most twenty-somethings, she struggles to figure out life and soon finds herself following the advice of her late great-aunt through a series of revelatory emails about pursuing long-buried dreams rather than society's idea of perfect...

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris is the stirring origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name.It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has...

Love forbidden by prejudice; death at the hands of unbridled hate; and a family history expunged because of societal inequities are the secrets unlocked when the identity of Charlotte Wickham is revealed.The saga begins with Danny finding Charlotte's diary and wedding photo. Danny is...

Crossing is a vividly human re-imagining of the love, sacrifices, and history that laid tracks for the North America of today. Leaving behind ancestral Chinese homelands and their family, brothers Yang and Lee face harrowing challenges as they join countless immigrants seeking a better...

"Painfully funny. . . . This rivals Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Fleishman is in Trouble in its pitch-perfect portrayal of Jewish American life." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the...

Anna, a photojournalist in New York City, has avoided returning home to New Hampshire since her mom died. Now, she suspects that her dad is troubled by something serious. Luckily, her next assignment brings her home for Christmas. Anna's dad shares that a contractor...

Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory birds hover over fields, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider, and no one looks like her. As...

In the second part which is the sequel to The Forgotten Child Trevor and Norman Kingsley go up to the attic to retrieve an old photo album and come a portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance Trevor they then go on...

"A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath." --Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the...

NATIONAL BESTELLER - An "exquisite" (The Boston Globe) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life--and how we all must learn to live together and apart--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours "The only problem with Michael Cunningham's prose...

Gigi isn't looking for the one. Just someone...!As she gears up for her sister's destination wedding in Hawaii, the countdown is on for Gigi to find a date. Just someone to prove to her friends and family that she's ok, and to stop the...

Preorder the next Primrose Woods story now!Primrose Hall is more than Jackson Moody and his fianc馥 Pia's home - it's the heart of the community.The Sunday craft fairs in the renovated stables are a popular draw for the locals and tourists alike, enticed by...

Will Alexander is on a journey of the heart and soul, searching for something elusive, something missing from his life-something obscured by the chaotic circumstances of his life and the mists of uncertainty. Blind to obvious truths, he is unable to see clearly what...

An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a...

The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel about a shocking betrayal and its aftermath, asking just how far you'll go to have everything you wantJackie Stinson's best friend is dead, and...